Development Dysplasia of the Hip

[adeelhanif]

My 2 weeks old DD have been identified with the hip dysplasia and she has now been put into Pavlik Harness, is there any parent out there who have had the similar issue with any of there child?

Hi All
my DD have been in the Pavlik harness since past 5 weeks - we have a travel coming up in the next couple of weeks. I would like to ask if anyone had an experience travelling with a baby in pavlik harness. Would reall appreciate if any can share there experience or give some kind of guidence to me.
Thanks
Ady

Hi my 4 month old daughter is in one too. Her angles were 67 (right perfect hip) but 57 on the left hip. She had another Ultrasound today which showed the left hip has improved to 65. She has been in it for nearly 6 weeks. We have a review on Friday and really hoping it comes off! Good luck everyone x

Hi my dd had this. Diagnosed at 6 weeks old. They decided to watch and wait as it wasn't bad and it may have corrected itself. Reviewed at 12 weeks and put a brace on her as it hadent corrected. She had to wear it 23 hours a day for 6 weeks. Reviewed after 6 weeks and she had to wear it just at night for 3 months. They then reviewed her at a year old and hips were perfect!

It's best caught when they're babies as it's easily treated and there is a good outcome, however, when it's caught later it's often surgery.

I was born with this condition, my left hip was totally dislocated. I'm 53 so treatment was different then, I wasn't diagnosed until I was 1, I was on traction in hospital for 6 weeks, then in frog plasters for 6 months & when this didn't work I was referred for surgery to put my hip back in its socket & pin it so it couldn't dislocate again, my parents were told to put me in a bed instead of my cot as after the surgery I wouldn't fit in the cot due to the plaster to hold my hips in position until it healed. I fell out of bed every night while I was waiting for my operation, when I was taken for my operation & anesthetized they did X-rays & found my hip was no longer dislocated. My parents returned to the ward to find me sat up in my cot looking extremely green eating bread & jam instead of being immobilized in plaster. We found when asking round the family that hip dysplasia ran in the female side of my dad's family, some of my female cousins had previously been diagnosed & my niece has been diagnosed when she was born, her treatment was very different, she had to wear 2 nappies at once to ease her hip back in & a harness at night for a short time.